Visual Structures and Integrated Functions

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Neural Mechanisms of Visuomotor Coordination: The Evolution of Rana computatrix

      • Michael A. Arbib

      Pages 3-30

   3. A Prospectus for the Fruitful Interaction Between Neuroethology and Neural Engineering

      • J.-P. Ewert

      Pages 31-56

3. From the Retina to the Brain

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. A computer model to visualize change sensitive responses in the salamander retina

      • Jeffrey L. Teeters, Frank H. Eeckman, Frank S. Werblin

      Pages 59-73

   3. Properties of Retinal and Retino-tecto-isthmo-tectal Units in Frogs

      • Frédéric Gaillard, René Garcia

      Pages 75-94

   4. Distributed Processing in Vestibulo-Ocular and Other Oculomotor Subsystems in Monkeys and Cats

      • Thomas J. Anastasio

      Pages 95-109

   5. Optic Chiasm Hemisection and the Parsing of Visual Information in Frogs

      • Robert F. Waldeck, Edward R. Gruberg

      Pages 111-122

4. Approach and Avoidance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Directed Movement in the Frog: A Closer Look at a Central Representation of Spatial Location

      • Paul Grobstein

      Pages 125-138

   3. Prey-catching and predator avoidance 1: Maps and Schemas

      • Michael Arbib, Alberto Cobas

      Pages 139-152

   4. Prey-catching and predator avoidance 2: Modeling the medullary hemifield deficit

      • Alberto Cobas, Michael Arbib

      Pages 153-166

   5. A Neural Network Model for Response to Looming Objects by Frog and Toad

      • Jim-Shih Liaw, Michael A. Arbib

      Pages 167-180

   6. Control of Frog Evasive Direction: Triggering and Biasing Systems

      • David Ingle

      Pages 181-189

   7. Approach and Avoidance Systems in the Rat

      • Paul Dean, Peter Redgrave

      Pages 191-204

   8. Computation of Absolute Distance in the Mongolian Gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus): Depth Algorithms and Neural Substrates

      • Colin G. Ellard, Melvyn A. Goodale

      Pages 205-219

5. Generating Motor Trajectories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Equilibrium point mechanisms in the spinal frog

      • Simon Giszter, Ferdinando A. Mussa-lvaldi, Emilio Bizzi

      Pages 223-237

   3. Actuator and Kinematic Redundancy in Biological Motor Control

      • Reza Shadmehr

      Pages 239-254

This volume integrates theory and experiment to place the study of vision within the context of the action systems which use visual information. This theme is developed by stressing: (a) The importance of situating anyone part of the brain in the context of its interactions with other parts of the brain in subserving animal behavior. The title of this volume emphasizes that visual function is to be be viewed in the context of the integrated functions of the organism. (b) Both the intrinsic interest of frog and toad as animals in which to study the neural mechanisms of visuomotor coordination, and the importance of comparative studies with other organisms so that we may learn from an analysis of both similarities and differences. The present volume thus supplements our studies of frog and toad with papers on salamander, bird and reptile, turtle, rat, gerbil, rabbit, and monkey. (c) Perhaps most distinctively, the interaction between theory and experiment.

• Brain modeling
• Computerassistierte Detektion
• Neurales Netz (Kybern.)
• Schema theory
• algorithms
• behavior
• computer-aided design (CAD)
• control
• evolution
• information processing
• layers
• learning
• memory
• model
• modeling

• Center for Neural Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  Michael A. Arbib

• Universität Kassel, GhK FB 19 — Abt. Neurobiologie, Kassel, Germany

  Jörg-Peter Ewert

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